Mady Christians was born in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the US, she started out as a stage actress but soon found new challenges in the world of cinema. Her first film was at the age of 24 when she appeared in _Audrey . She died on October 28, 1951, in Norwalk, CT, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Appeared in U.S., Austrian, German, French, and British films.
Daughter of players Bertha Klein and Rudolph Christians.
Studied with Max Reinhardt.
She was born on January 19, 1892 to Rudolph Christians, who died during production of Erich von Stroheims Foolish Wives and had to be replaced by a lookalike actor (Robert Edeson).
In 1929 she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany.
When her father took over a German theater in the USA, the whole family went to the USA where Mady Christians made her film debut with "Audrey" (24). But after the outbreak of World War I Mady Christians returned with her mother to Berlin.
She achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Married Dr. Sven von Mueller, editor of a Hamburg, Germany newspaper before coming to America in 1933.
